The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-06-16
GENERAL NEWS.

Items Taken From the Latest TeIe-
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest. ..
Lansdowne is to be made Duke.
Pool selling is to be stopped in New
York.
Levy, the great Paris pawnbroker has
failed.
There is prospect for prolonged In
dian war in Arizona.
No more liquor will be distilled in Ken
lucky until July, 1889.
Chas A. Keep, editor of the Wall Street
News, died last Thursday.
Sixteen persons were buried in land
slide at Ell Pedro, Panama.
Herr Most and his associates are to be
punished for Sundays riot.
The president held an informal recep-
ton at the executive mansion.
The French Chambers is agitated over
the discussion OF the army bill.
Belgrade reports a brand-new cabinet
of unpronounceable names.-Miner.
The striking carpenters at Toronto got
the advance asked and have resumed
work.
At McMinnville, Or, last Friday Oscar
Kelby killed his wife and then tried to
kill himself.
The will Of Mrs. Henry Wood, novelist,
bequeaths $4,000 to her children in
equal shares.
Vernome in Turkestan was nearly des-
troyed by earthquakes last week and 125
lives were lost.
w. E. Chandler has received the nom-
ination for United States senator from
New Hampshire.
Emperor William is better and is ont
of pain. The Crown Princes condition
is also improving.
John Morley, the English historian,
will become political director of the
Daily News, London.
A representative of the Paris Fig aro
has been turned out of Alsace-Lorraine
for incendiary writing.
The Rt. Rev. Vim. Bacon Stevens, bis
hop of the diocese of Pennsylvania died
in Philadelphia last Saturday.
Hon. J. w. Ewing, an uncle of J. G.
Blaine, died at Washington, Pa, last
Thursday. He was 80 years of age.
Russia has raised the import duty
on iron and steel and articles manufac-
tured therefrom from 25 to so per cent.
Twenty-Five thousand miles of land are
in Hungary. Attempts to
maintain the dykes are being abandoned.
The Russian railway is completed to
within 125 miles of the Afghan frontier.
There is no fighting going on in Afghan
istan.
Reports brought to Port Townsend, W.
T., by steamer from Alaska say that In
dians and miners are fighting in the in
terror.
Daniel Manning, late q. S. treasurer,
arrived in New York on Saturday last
from Europe looking much improved in
health.
A Russian named Smolienoff. in San
Francisco, claims to have discovered a
way IN which nitro-glycer1ne may be used
with safely in projectiles.
Among 5000 immigrants who arrived
at Castle Gardens last Saturday were
sixteen penniless Greek from Syria, who
will probably be sent back.
NM. Clemenceau and Foucher, the
latter editor of the National, have fought
a duel with pistols near Paris. Neither
of the combatants were hurt.
An attempt to wreck the west-bound
Northern Pacific train was made last
week at Spokane Rails by piling rolls of
telegraph wire upon the track.
Already the pension bills to be urged
on the next session of congress are
being gotten up and circulated among
Grand Army posts and elsewhere.
The buildings of the Havemeyer Sugar,
Refining company at Green Point, N. j.,
were destroyed by fire last Saturday;
loss, 100000, of which half was insured.
A recent decision of Judge Bond of the
q. S. circuit court at Raleigh, N. c., is to
the effect that unpaid interest on $10,-
100000 worth of North Carolina bonds,
issued in 1869, will have to be paid. The
amounts involved are up in the millions
and special session of the legislature